Halloween in your own garden
On the 31th of October it’s Halloween. The biggest horror event of the year. You often see people decorating their house and garden with all kinds of creepy decorations. Do you want your garden to be creepy this year as well? Then read on! We would like to let you know how you can bring Halloween into your own garden.
Creepy plants
It is not always necessary to buy extra decorations for Halloween. Nature itself has a lot of "scary" objects to offer. For example, there are many plants that secretly have a rather spooky appearance. Also in our range!
Take, for example, the Photinia, also known as Red Robin. And not without reason! This hedge has bright red stems with red leaves. As red as blood! In the flowering period, white flowers grow in the hedge, which can give off a stinky smell. This increases the creepy character even more!
The Holly also has an appearance that fits in well with the Halloween theme. The prickly leaves look like a chainsaw. The Holly is a female plant. If a male plant is nearby the Holly produces bright red berries. From afar these look like blood spatters!
Did you know that Ivy can be quite scary? It is an ideal plant for spiders to hide in. The plant is therefore often full of cobwebs for good reason. At least you don't have to buy them as decoration anymore!
Carving out pumpkins
Of course, pumpkins can never be missing in a Halloween garden! These large, spherical fruits have a hard shell and are usually orange in colour. At Halloween, it is tradition to hollow out the pumpkin and carve a face in it. Candles are then placed in the pumpkin and lit in the dark. In this way, the carved faces give off an eerie light, which is supposed to scare away evil spirits. So it not only looks scary, but it also has a useful function!
You can grow pumpkins yourself in your garden. It is best to sow them around mid-May in a humus-rich, water-permeable soil. Make sure the plant has enough room to grow. Pumpkin plants crawl along the ground, so they need a lot of space. Most pumpkins can be harvested around the end of September/beginning of October. Just in time for Halloween!
Don't feel like growing pumpkins yourself? No problem! There are plenty of places where you can buy pumpkins every year in the weeks before Halloween.
Be creative!
In addition to all the spooky things nature has to offer, you can always decorate your garden with all sorts of other scary things. Trees and hedge plants are perfect for hanging decorations. So fill them all up! If you use a hedge as a fence, this is the ideal place to hide something and use it as a scarecrow when people walk by.
Make it as scary as you like, be creative and make sure that the neighbourhood doesn't stop talking about your (super) natural, creepy Halloween garden. Happy Halloween!